Cloud
- Bootstrapping a Virtual Machine with Windows Azure (Michael Washam) - Nice quick tutorial about going forward with startup task but with vm.
- WaIISHost.exe.config does not work with Windows Azure SDK 1.8 - Nice catch and nice workaround.
- How to upload an Image to Windows Azure Storage using Mobile Services (Nick Harris) - Nice tutorial to upload directly your images (gif, jpeg) into blob storage.
- Backup SQL Database Federation (Herve Roggero)- Introduction to a very useful tool call Enzo Cloud Backup that gives you the ability to backup and restore Azure Federation Database. These options are available through a graphic interface and API. You can even setup a schedule.
- Windows Azure Virtual Machine: A look at Windows Azure IaaS Offerings (Part 1) (admin) - Nice recap of the offer of Azure from PaaS to IaaS.
- Developing a Support Plan for Cloud Applications (Buck Woody) - Quick post about the importance of thinking about a good support plan of your cloud applications.
- Embrace the Cloud: Your Customers Are! (Clayton M) - 4 out of 10 of your customer are using the cloud. If you don't move, they will continue without you. This is the main premise of this post.
- Free online Windows AzureConf this Wednesday (Scott Gu) - Nice conference with some amazing presentations that you should really watch. When this post will be publish the video should be available on Channel9.
- Amazon S3 Now Supports Archiving Data to Amazon Glacier - AWS announce a very cheap archive solution for S3.
- Microsoft Acquires StorSimple (Michael_Park) - News from the acquisition of StorSimple, the great product to extend really easily your local storage.
- Upgrading to Azure SDK 1.8 (Tyler Doerksen) - Great post the pass through some migration issue that you can have when a VS2010 Azure project is open the first time in VS2012.
- Practical Azure #2: What About Blob? - Great video on everything you should know on Azure Blob.
- BizTalk Server 2013 BETA–Window 8 Configuration issues (Saravana Kumar) - This post expose some issue when installing BizTalk 2013 on a real computer and how to fix it.
- The Internet is not a black box. Look inside. (Scott Hanselman) - Nice demonstration of why we should use all our nice tools...
- Great Apps Are Inspired by Pure Imagination (Jonathan Rozenblit) - Good initiative to get a lot of ideas, tricks and contacts wild doing some nice code...
- LinkedIn Endorsements Changes Everything. Here's Why (Dave Kerpen) - A little change on Linkedin web site that could have a big effect on your profile.
- The Computer Backup Rule of Three (Scott Hanselman) - Nice post about the importance of doing backup. Be scare and do it!
- Tagging Comes to Readability (David Sleight) - Great add-on to a great tools. I'm a big fan of Readability and looking forward to upgrade my script using the API.
- 10 Leadership Practices to Stop Today (Paul Spiegelman) - What your score...? Is it time to change?
- 5 Ways to Use Images to Make Your Posts Irresistible (Darren Rowse) - Maybe it's my photographic background but I found that post to be absolutely true. The web is graphic so you must use image for all type of posts or articles.
~Frank